Earth's most successful creatures, ants, form vast, organized societies. The Argentine ant, however, has created an astonishing supercolony spanning t ...

In an ant colony, the queen is dying, under attack by her own daughters. Meanwhile, the true enemy — an invader queen from ...

In a forest floor coup that sounds almost fictional, a newly described parasitic ant has evolved a way to make loyal workers ...

Discover the Dinoponera, Earth's largest ant, reaching up to 4 cm! These South American giants boast a unique queenless ...

Scientists newly described how a parasitic ant queen infiltrates another ant species’ colony and tricks the workers into ...

A new study published in Current Biology documented the queen of an ant species dethroning the queen of another species using ...

A traveler at Detroit Metropolitan Airport unknowingly brought some surprising hitchhiking pests with them to Romulus.

Queens of some ant species have evolved an unusually hostile mode for colony takeover: they infiltrate colonies of other ant ...

Invasive tawny crazy ants have been wreaking havoc across the U.S. Gulf Coast from Florida to Texas, disrupting ecosystems ...

Researchers found that parasitic queens used bold deception. They entered nests belonging to other ant species. They then ...

Scientists use a natural pathogen and ant behavior to collapse invasive tawny crazy ant colonies and help restore ecosystems.

Oregano oil contains a compound that makes fire ants avoid treated soil. This natural approach may offer a safer option for ...